Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ken Wilber

If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it adequately, or all you will do is reproduce in larger numbers your own ignorance.

Karl A. Menninger

The adjuration to be "normal" seems shockingly repellent to me; I see neither hope nor comfort in sinking to that low level. I think it is ignorance that makes people think of abnormality only with horror and allows them to remain undismayed at the proximity of "normal" to average and mediocre. For surely anyone who achieves anything is, essentially, abnormal.

Karen Traviss

If we were given one word of information in our entire history, how we'd treasure it! how we'd pore over ever syllable, divining it's meaning, arguing its importance; how we'd examine it and wring every lesson we could from it. Yet today we have trillions of words, tidal waves of information and the smallest detail of every action our government and businesses take is easily available to us at the touch of a button. And yet...we ignore it, and learn nothing from it. One day we'll die of voluntary ignorance

Kris Carr

We consume far too many animal products, processed and refined foods, saturated fats, and empty calories. Industries that profit from both our ignorance and our misfortune spoon-feed us confusion and deception.

Mark Twain

...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God.

Mark Twain

We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced.

Mark Twain

...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

Mark Twain

The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

Mark Twain

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

Mark Twain

The trouble with most of us is that we know too much that ain't so.

Mark Twain

Ignorance is not not knowin' - Ignorance is knowin' what ain't so.

Mark Twain

I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Mark Twain

Ignorance is not, not knowing something. It is knowing what isn't so.

Mary Roach

In my experience, the most staunchly held views are based on ignorance or accepted dogma, not carefully considered accumulations of facts. The more you expose the intricacies and realtities of the situation, the less clear-cut things become.

Martin Farquhar Tupper

Knowledge is leagued with the universe, and findeth a friend in all things; but ignorance is everywhere a stranger, unwelcome; ill at ease and out of place.

Noam Chomsky

Education is imposed ignorance.

Mark Twain

Few things are more irritating than when someone who is wrong is also very effective in making his point.

Mark Twain

Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty.

Mark Twain

Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether. A clean desk is a sign of a cluttered desk drawer. All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure.

Marguerite Duras

In a thousand years time this day will have existed for a thousand years to the day. And the ignorance of the whole world about what they've said today will have a date too.

Marguerite Yourcenar

On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.

Naomi Judd

Ignorance is my least favorite thing. I really think it's at the core of all our problems.

R. Buckminster Fuller

So long as mathematicians can impose up-and-down semantics upon students while trafficking personally in the non-up-and-down advantages of their concise statements, they can impose upon the ignorance of man a monopoly of access to accurate processing of information and can fool even themselves by thought habits governing the becoming behavior of professional specialists, by disclaiming the necessity of, or responsibility for, comprehensive adjustment of the a priori thought to total reality of universal principles.

R. Buckminster Fuller

There is no energy crisis, only a crisis of ignorance.

Publilius Syrus

Better to be ignorant of a matter than half know it.

Leonardo da Vinci

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

Patrick Rothfuss

Fear tends to come from ignorance. Once I knew what the problem was, it was just a problem, nothing to fear.

Patrick Rothfuss

Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.

Lev Grossman

We have reached the point where ignorance and neglect are the best we can hope for in a ruler.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

But ignorance is happiness,When young Hope is to show the way

P. J. O'Rourke

The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.

Oliver Goldsmith

And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

Oliver Goldsmith

Prudery is ignorance.